Flash your DIY wedding invitations!

I love these they're so nice... I was thinking of having fold over invites but then I wasn't sure

All my card was from PDA Card & Craft, ribbon from ebay.

I printed it all at home on my little kodak injet printer, on A4 card, cut out all the pieces with a guillotine and assembled with double sided tape.

Easy enough, but don't underestimate how long it takes!!

I did the same with table plan, table names, menus, order of service, favours and thank you cards!

Have you got a link for them??

Have you got a link for them??

https://www.pdacardandcraft.co.uk/

Brill thanks

Did you just buy A4 card from them? Did you have a template for the foldover card? I'm thinking it would be better to do these as i have a lot of info to put into my invite!

Here were mine, took months to make!

I bought A4 card (my printer didn't like the smaller bits) - I laid out all the pieces I needed in powerpoint using text boxes in the right size and played around till I got it all to fit. I double sided the additional info bit too. Trial and error!

Mrs C, how did you do the map?

The invites look great btw!

Thanks!

I drew the map, scanned it into photoshop and then added the orchid and the text!

Well that's very clever!!

Thanks! ?

Mrs C, did you buy the card with the flowers on it already and then just print on to it?

No, I bought plain sparkly card, bought a graphic design online from fotalia which I tweaked to match my scheme and put it all together myself.

Hi- these invitations are amazing- they look so professional.

Here are mine: mixture of local craft shop/ ebay find/ dunelms:

These are ours! Colour hasn't come out very well but it's purple card with lime green ribbon and the insert cards are all cream. We had some great shots from our engagement shoot so wanted to use them in the invites. The ribbon that runs along the bottom also goes around the back and is used to tie the invite closed. vIt took forever to guilletine the insert cards to be the right size! I'm just glad they're all done and sent!

These are mine there are 4 cards of same style tied together with a smaller RSVP and envelope- PDA card and hobby craft for the luggage tags

Loving the invites! Im going to make my own but stuck on ideas at the so been great looking at others... Mrs C how big did your invites turn out? i ordered some samples online from ebay which are lovely but alot smaller than i thought (about 4"X4")

The pocketfolds were either 140mm or 148mm square, I can't remember now!

Oh wow, you lot are loads more crafty than me. I'm just ordering mine professionally, even though it's costing an arm and a leg!

Mine is a Kodak inkjet... really cheap ink and the printing was really good on my sparkly card.

I've only done my prototype so far

Oh wow, they are all so good! Very professional-looking. I quite fancy making my own but really don't think I'm creative enough! It's great to see some inspiration. Did you just get ideas from designs you'd already seen elsewhere?

These are amazing, love them!

They look lovely! Do you know where you can download images from- like nice flower or heart graphics? What programme did you design them in?

I downloaded mine from fotalia, there are lots of stock photo sites you can purchase images from.

I tweaked mine in photoshop but that was mainly because I wanted to change the colours to match my theme.

I then used the graphic and text boxes (fonts downloaded for free from dafont.com) in powerpoint to lay them out, other Hitchers have used Publisher or other graphics programmes.

Thank you 2013_bride! xxx

Mine were simple but time consuming - all hand embossed.

Bottom right are evening invites - they had a mother of pearl heart button sewn in the corner.

They are great Mrs C. How did you go about making the pocketfold? this may be where I come unstuck!!